Re: United States Civil War

On Sat, 6 Sep 1997, Christopher K Smith wrote:

> Even though this is kinda off topic...I guess I will through my two
cents
> in.  First...I thought Turtledove wrote Guns of the South....maybe
not.
> I agree that there was no way the South could have won a military
> victory...It could have possibly made Lincoln and his generals
> look bad enough to cause the North to pull out of the war.

That depends on what you call a victory in this case.  In Turtledove's
Guns of the South, all Lee did was to march into Washington, and even
that
was with plenty of help from the South African mercenaries.  However,
the
question of would this end the war is up for debate.